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Friday, July 3, 2009

Verve Needs Some Face Time!

Well, I told ya'll yesterday that I've got a ton to share here, so I'm going to be double and triple dipping, inundating ya'll with pics here for a little bit in order to get caught up! I seriously have enough to post something every day here, but as ya'll know, I rarely do that (I'm flakey that way--plus, what would I talk about every single day? What would you like to know?). So I'm apologizing ahead of time. The three cards I'm bombarding you with today are all from Verve they are all some of my favorites! This first one uses a Plain Jane from Julee's latest release and It's called Feel Better. I had picked up this paper from Piggy Tales at the Scrapper's Boutique, but with the intention of using it for another stamp set from MFT. However, I liked the "punniness" of it with this card. Maybe I'm warped, but "under the weather" is what comes to mind when I think of Get Well cards. So do ya'll get it? "Under the Weather", with the umbrellas? Maybe it's a little far-reaching, but I still love it!

This card has more of a somber feel to it as it's from the Forever in Our Hearts set which is mainly geared toward Sympathy cards. I love the main image, but I think some of the sentiments included in the set are quite versatile. So even if you are good on stamps in the sympathy department, I think you should still check it out! I used one of the Mojo Monday sketches from the Mojo Blog, actually MOJO92 (Julee just comes up with the most incredible and well thought out sketches, don'tcha ya think?). A couple of details you may not be able to catch in this photo: It's not black, I used the Smokey Shadow from Papertrey and combined it with the green. It's really shimmery in person. The flower has glitter, the image is gone over with a Stardust pen, and even the little button has glitter embedded in it! I used my Scor-Pal to make the embossed stripes on the green panel. I like that look!

This one's a little blast from the past that I made for May's release. The Up, Up and Away set was just dying to be used for a baby card, and combined with another of the Mojo Monday sketches (MOJO88), it just worked itself out! A tiny secret: I tried every single paper/color combo that this card has to offer for the little sentiment circle. This one looked the best, and now I've got a lot of Kraft, blue and white scalloped circles and plain circles to use on another project! Do ya'll do that? I think that's the first time it's happened to me! NOT!! Anyway, thanks for putting up with my "book" of a post today! Eric is off work today (he works for the U.S. Attorney's office, or as I like to say, "he's with the Feds". But he really does collect money from crooks, so he deserves a little perk every once in a while. Bernie Madoff, watch out!), and we are going to work on our itinerary for our Disneyworld trip. Some things you have to plan WAY in advance for and make dining reservations way ahead of time. Ought to be fun! Oh and also, hot dogs are in order for tomorrow, so I've got to go to the store and take care of that. I must be hungry as everything I've got going on today will have to do with food! I'll see ya'll back here tomorrow for Jen's Sketch For You To Try!

SUSIE Q-TIP: I wanted a scalloped border for my Forever in Our Hearts card (the middle one). There were several ways I could have accomplished that. One, use scalloped scissors--I try not to unless I have to, plus the scallops were going to be too small. Two, use the Slot Punch from SU! and go down the entire edge with it--too big of scallops for this look. So my third option was to use my Nestabilities Scalloped Rectangle (the BIG one, since it was long enough for my card). Here's a picture of how I did it. Rather than cut an entire rectangle, I just took a strip of the gray and taped it to the Nestie, then ran it through my cuttlebug.

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It's Me Susan...

My name is Susan and I am a SAHM of 3 girls. I am married to the best guy ever and we have been together for 15 years. yay!! I love any kind of papercrafts--stamping, scrapbooking, making cards--all of it as long as I'm having fun doing it (which is most of the time)!! I'd love to hear from you! Email me at susanliles@sbcglobal.net